PATENTS ACT (as amended)
DISTRIBUTED BY VERITAS
VERITAS MAKES EVERY EFFORT TO ENSURE THE PROVISION OF RELIABLE INFORMATION,
BUT CANNOT TAKE LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR INFORMATION SUPPLIED.
CHAPTER 26:03
PATENTS ACT
Acts 26/1971, 39/1973 (ss. 39 and 52), 42/1976 (s. 15), 39/1979, 15/1981, 29/1981, 41/1983,
12/1986 (s. 13), 11/1991 (s. 17), 20/1994 (s. 7), 22/2001 (s. 4) 1, 9/20022, 14/2002 (s. 40)3.
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
PART I
PRELIMINARY
Section
1.
Short title.
2.
Interpretation.
2A. Inventions for which patent may not be granted.
3.
4.
5.
PART II
ADMINISTRATION
Patent Office, Controller, registrars of patents and other officers.
Seal.
Register of Patents.
PART III
APPLICATIONS GENERALLY
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
Persons entitled to make application.
Form of application.
Complete and provisional specifications.
Contents of specification.
Effective date of claims of complete specification.
Examination of applications and specifications.
Ante-dating and post-dating of applications and specifications.
Refusal of application in certain cases.
Powers of Registrar if specification or application defective.
Lapsing of applications.
Acceptance and publication of complete specification and cancellation thereof.
Opposition to grant of patent.
Substitution of applicants.
Prior knowledge or publication of invention excused in certain circumstances.
Provisions for secrecy of certain inventions.
PART IV
GRANT, EFFECT AND TERM OF P ATENT
21.
22.
23.
24.
24A.
24B.
25.
26.
27.
28.
29.
30.
30A.
31.
32.
1
2
3
Grant and sealing of patent.
Amendment of patent granted to deceased applicant.
Date of patent.
Extent, effect and form of patent.
Parallel importation of patented products etc.
Test batches of patented products.
Term of patent.
Patents of addition.
Renewal of patents.
Restoration of lapsed patents.
Licences of right.
Cancellation of entry made in terms of section 29.
Compulsory licence in respect of dependent patents.
Compulsory licence in case of abuse or insufficient use of patent rights.
Inventions relating to food or certain other commodities.
Criminal Penalties Amendment Act, 2001, with effect from 20th May, 2002.
Patents Amendment Act, 2002, with effect from 20th December, 2002.
General Laws Amendment Act, 2002, with effect from 24th January, 2003.
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